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  2. Acoustic guitar - Wikipedia

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    An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked, its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, resonating through the air in the body, and producing sound from the sound hole. [1]

  3. Twelve-string guitar - Wikipedia

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    A twelve-string guitar (or 12-string guitar) is a steel-string guitar with 12 strings in six courses, which produces a thicker, more ringing tone than a standard six-string guitar. Typically, the strings of the lower four courses are tuned in octaves, with those of the upper two courses tuned in unison. The gap between the strings within each ...

  4. Dreadnought (guitar type) - Wikipedia

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    The dreadnought is a type of acoustic guitar body developed by American guitar manufacturer C.F. Martin & Company. [1] The style, since copied by other guitar manufacturers, has become the most common for acoustic guitars. At the time of its creation in 1916 the word dreadnought referred to a large, all big-gun, modern battleship of the type ...

  5. Fretless guitar - Wikipedia

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    Fretless bass. Oud. A fretless guitar is a guitar with a fingerboard without frets, typically a standard instrument that has had the frets removed, though some custom-built and commercial fretless guitars are occasionally made. [1] The classic fretless guitar was first pioneered in 1976 by Turkish musician Erkan Oğur. [2]

  6. Archtop guitar - Wikipedia

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    An archtop guitar is a hollow acoustic or semi-acoustic guitar with a full body and a distinctive arched top, whose sound is particularly popular with jazz, blues, and rockabilly players. Typically, an archtop guitar has: Six strings. An arched top and back, not a flat top and back. A hollow body. Moveable adjustable bridge.

  7. Resonator guitar - Wikipedia

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    A resonator guitar or resophonic guitar (often called a "dobro" [1]) is an acoustic guitar that produces sound by conducting string vibrations through the bridge to one or more spun metal cones (resonators), instead of to the guitar's sounding board (top). Resonator guitars were originally designed to be louder than regular acoustic guitars ...